Gentle florals of pea and honeysuckle backed up with peach and melon add layers to the expected toffee and milk chocolate. This is a great all day drinking filter coffee. Enjoy.

Huehuetenango is a municipality in the western highlands of Guatemala, running up to the border with Mexico and encompassing a lot of microclimates across its hills and valleys. Pena Roja, or red rock, lies in the foothills of Pena Blanca which peaks at 3520 masl.

Cooperativa Agricola Integral Peña Roja are a smaller co-op that work with a larger union of cooperatives, Fedecocagua, to help market and sell their coffee abroad. In return, they get extra investment and support as well as access to services such as agronomists that work directly with the union. In this manor they can maintain the traceability and character of their coffee and share the expertise that larger groups have access to as well as increase their network for best practises and issues fighting diseases. The co-op also provide a free nursery for children under eight in their community.

Coffee on the 81 smallholders’ farms is picked by hand, washed and dried on patios under the sun, often those patios are actually the rooves of houses perching on the slopes and hillsides. Further processing at the dry mill that is located in La Libertad takes place to prepare bags for shipping and export. The area contains of a selection of varieties that allow for a more secure crop diversity.

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Life's Too Short...Enjoy Your Coffee

We realise that we came together in this company because we share the same philosophy on life. That to truly experience life is to make every day count. Not always with something big but learning to appreciate the little things just as much as the grand adventures.

This has inspired our entire coffee range from the Sunset Espresso through to The Road Trip and Escape. Each coffee represents a little bit of each of us and our lifestyle. We all came to realise that life is simply too short, that things change and you never know what is around the corner.

Life is definitely too short for a bad cup of coffee

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